| Show A DEEP FOR THE WEST resolutions adopted al the deep harbor convention held at denver the committee on resolutions beg leave to make the following report WHEREAS the general welfare of oar country in so far as it relates to navigable rivers harbors and commerce is committed by the constitution of the united states to the exclusive charge of the congress and WHEREAS cheap transportation of our commercial products constitutes one of the most important elements of the general welfare and WHEREAS the congress has donated to private corporations more than one hundred millions of money and upwards of two hundred millions of acres of our national lands with which to construct artificial and therefore much more expensive high ways owned by private individuals while they have neglected to make adequate appropriations for even one feasible harbor on the northwest coast of tho gulf of mexico which not only afford very much cheaper transportation but which by our organic law is under the exclusive care and control of congress and WHEREAS the vast and rapidly developing ve loping area lying west of the mississippi sis sippi river comprising more than three fifths of the national domain and yielding largely more than ono half of the agricultural meat and mineral products of the entire country is by this neglect forced to transport its commerce across the contin ent by way of these artificial and expensive highways subject to such exactions of private cupidity as amounts always to a serious burden and sometimes to total interdiction to both consumer and producer and there can be no justification of this in favor of which during the year cost the commerce of the west an enormous losa in transports tran tion expense estimated at more than one hundred and twenty millions of dollars or upwards of tea millions per month therefore resolved that in of the action of the denver convention and of the committees organized ik ia tha sense of this convention that it is the duty of congress to appropriate permanently and for immediate use whatever amount is necessary to secure a deepwater deep water port on the northwest boast of the gulf of mexico west of the 93 degrees west longitude capable of admitting the largest vessels and at which the best and most accessible harbor can be secured and maintained in the shortest possible time and at least cose the time place and cost to be ascertained from the board of engineers ap pointed under an act of congress passed at its last session resolved further that tion in behalf of the people it depre senta thanks the congress of the united states for the prompt and satisfactory action heretofore taken in recognition of tho request of the denver deep harbor convention resolved that the thanks of this convention are due to the permanent committee appointed at the denver deep harbor convention for their efficient action in the past and said committee is hereby requested to continue earnestly in the work so well begun and said committee is instruct ed to present these resolutions to the president of the united states with the request that he in his annual message to congress recommend such an appropriation as may be reported necessary to secure the permanent deep harbor on the coast of texas which may be recommended by the report of the board of engineers resolved that those states and territories represented in this convention and not represented onabe permanent committee shall have the privilege of reporting to the permanent committee the names oi such members of the committee aa they may be entitled to under the basis of representation on which that committee is constituted respectfully submitted D H chairman |
